Caused By Inadequate Yacht Systems Engineering 

Oversized equipment – “more” is not always better. e.g.  Over-sizing air conditioners causes start-up power problems, temperature control without humidity control, excess equipment cost and wasted space.

First-come-first-served installations – Equipment spaces without a top-down plan will have access problems, ventilation problems and even performance problems because of excessive wire or piping runs.

Poor power management – results in excess genset run time, over-size genset selection, and inability to function fully on dock power.

Brute-force problem solving – e.g. expensive whole-boat frequency converters for 50-cycle power, when most high power equipment works well on 50-cycle power directly.

Excessive integration and complexity – e.g. hydraulic systems that interconnect the bow thruster, windlass, davits and stabilizers are complex enough to fail often and affect too many critical systems when they do fail.

Boat show systems – it’s hard to resist the amazing claims that you are exposed to.  Some boats are full of systems that, “seemed like a good idea at the time”.

Missed opportunities to use off-the-shelf equipment – e.g. Why buy a fancy “marinized” computer when you can buy an industry standard computer and replace it every year or two for far cheaper? 

Poor (or no) documentation – If there is no consistent overall Engineering going on, the coming and going vendors and technicians are highly unlikely to document what they do.  This produces the technical mysteries, that will undoubtedly result in someone recommending, “Tear this whole mess out and…”.  Heard this before?

Difficult to operate systems – Systems Engineers can understand the entire system and define overall operational guidelines. Most vendors can’t.  A properly designed system is logical and intuitive overall, rather than a result of many add-ons.

Owners “holding the bag” – Multi-vendor finger pointing is often the result when overall systems fail to work as claimed by individual vendors.  A properly designed system relies on the verifiable specifications of the components, not the best-case claims of the vendors.  The Yacht Systems Engineer is the referee and peacemaker if such problems occur. 

Confused and abused owners – Owners are generally attacked from all sides by everybody that has something to sell.  We prefer to sell only technical knowledge and owner advocacy.  This eliminates conflicts of interest, because we don’t sell what we recommend, for a profit.  Finally, there’s someone on your side.

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